Only The Dark Can Save You

Chapter One

"Okay, so, tell me about yourself." Nikki starts as we sit down in the sand, licking our ice cream cones. "Well," I start, "In high school I had an idea to start a band with my friends, and I met this amazing girl, Kayla. We fell in love and moved in an apartment together. Kayla told me she loved me with all her heart and then up and left me one day when I woke up. She didn't even take her stuff. It took a while to get rid of her stuff because I couldn't get over her.

My best friend made me burn it all and piss on it. Those are mainly the biggest events in my life." I ramble. "Wow, I'm so sorry. Do you still want to be in a band?" Nikki asks softly. "Every single damn day I do. I want to know what it would be like if I was in a band. I want to know how far we'd go. How popular we'd get. I want to save kids' lives, kids who struggled with self-harm like me."

Once I said that, my eyes went wide and I covered my mouth. "Y- You self-harmed?" Nikki asks, her eyes widening. "I-" "Chris, its fine. I'm not going to look at you differently. But this is good. You want to help kids with issues with your music and singing and quotes." "Exactly, I want to have quotes by me and people being saved by them and my music. I want to tour with my friends and have March." I rant.

"I'll help you." Nikki says once we go quiet. "W- What?" I ask in shock. "I'll help you. I want you to follow your dreams." "Nikki, you really don't have to...I mean...what about my job and what about-" Nikki places her finger on my lips, "Chris, I come from a very wealthy family. I can somehow get the money. And if you ever get famous and such, just quit and maybe I'll take your place."

"But I don't want to take money from you Nikki." "You're not taking money from me. Plus, maybe someday I can be the crazy fan girl of a girlfriend and have a famous sexy singer of a boyfriend." She winks. "Right." I laugh, "But, I wouldn't want you to go through all of this just for something that might fail." "Oh please, you're a great singer, you're friends are great...players and you have a fan right here." Nikki explains.

"Are you sure you want this?" I ask softly. "Chris, I do, do you?" "I do want to be in a band." "Then do it! And if all fails, then you have your job still just don't quit till later on..." Nikki informs. "I'll only do this if you do something for me." "Dear God Chris, I'm already paying for your stuff." She teases laughing. "Go on another date with me?" I ask. "Oh that, I can do that." She grins.

"For now, we're going to work on gathering the things we need to finally start to look, for" I inform as we stand up. "Of course." Nikki replies walking aside me as we walk around the beach. It's silent for a long time and our hands keep bumping into each other and every time they do we both blush and look away. "Hey Nikki." I say scooping up water in my hands. "Yeah?" She turns to face me and I splash her.

"Oh Cerulli bad idea." She smirks before full blown pushing me into the ocean. "Holy shit!!!" I shout as I surface. "That's so cold!!" I gasp out. "Aw I'm sorry needing help?" Nikki coos teasingly reaching an arm out to help. When I take her hand, I tug her into the cold water with me. "Fuck you!!" She giggles before smacking my head lightly.

Nikki and I crawled onto the sand and lay on our backs next to each other. After a moment, I say, "Nikki." She turns to me, "Chris." "I'm falling for you." I say softer than ever. "You are?" She asks sitting up. "Yeah." "H- How do you know?" She questions. "When I look at you, I can't help but smile and I want to know everything about you, your fears, dreams, and I want to know what you're like at 2am in the morning."

I pause, "And I know we only just met a year ago but I would just like you to know that." Nikki stayed quiet before she murmured, "I'm falling for you too."

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When I dropped Nikki off, I walked her to the door. "I'll see you at the school tomorrow." She says blushing. "Of course." I nod. "Nikki, do you know the Wi-Fi-" Someone asks opening the door. It was a girl with light pink hair and a lip ring. "Who is this?" She smirks. "Come on Lexi we had like five seconds left of the date." Nikki groans. "So it's a date? Already fucking your new boy toy?" "Lexi!!" She snaps.